Producer

Ben Pengilly

Directing duo Tearjerker&nbsp;-&nbsp;Hope Elliott Kemp and Ronan Corrigan - reunite with indie rock band The Academic for a&nbsp;cinematic tribute to the heist film genre.&nbsp;Set inside a bookies, the promo for new single Pushing Up Daisies&nbsp;stars the band as dejected gamblers, completely oblivious to a robbery going on around them.The second in a planned trilogy of videos for album Sitting Pretty, the video was shot at an abandoned electricity board in Bethnal Green, with an ambitious and very well-executed set build from scratch by production designer Ben Clark.&nbsp;In a big step up in scale for the directors, the video features thrilling action scenes, brilliant stunt work and a rather creepy set of costumes, and perfectly blends the offbeat conceptual elements of their previous collaborations with the group.[imgtoken data:1]“One of our favourite challenges is figuring out how we can fit the artists into the worlds we create," say TEARJERKER.&nbsp;"Bookies are grim places where dreams go to die, so we loved the idea of juxtaposing the high octane heist with the soul-destroyed punters whose lives revolve around the bet.“A lot of artists are nervous about doing anything other than a traditional performance video, but The Academic have&nbsp;never said ‘no’ to our weirdest ideas. At this point we’ve shot the band stuck inside washing machines, vending machines, a freezer, an abandoned water park and possibly the hardest challenge yet, on Zoom."For Sitting Pretty we wanted to push everything further and create a full cinematic world around the album."&nbsp;

Ben Clark

Erin Rose Arthurs

TEARJERKER

Great Guns

Michael Whitham

Max Hodgkinson

Samuel Meyer

Kate Phillips

Pol Gill Dir

Deniz Yildiz

Nevzat Altinisik

Adam Richard

Shauna Taggart

Ollie Davis

Elements Fx

Capitol/Universal Music

The Academic 'Pushing Up Daisies' by Tearjerker

The Academic - Pushing Up Daisies

Jordan Rossi takes Craig David into a colourful surrealist adventure for his video for&nbsp;My Heart's Been Waiting For You.Craig performs this garage-influenced club hit in a serious of increasingly surreal settings, with outer space encroaching into modern-day London. And periodically everything then suddenly ramps up into another dazzling visual dimension.[imgtoken data:1]"The brief was wide open," explains Rossi.&nbsp;"All that was stated was they wanted a green screen video that had the vibe of Craig's tour footage. I took that and ran with it, and wanted to craft a luminous surrealist fantasy that was equal parts Dali with Craig's R&amp;B-pop aesthetic."Craig was the best collaborator a director could ask for. Hugely respectful of the art but always wanted to push the boundaries creatively. It meant that what was a green screen video became a smash of reality and illusion in the most entrancing of ways. The final result is a fantasia of colour and other worldly scenarios. All seemingly familiar but with a twist."

United Kingdom

Cheryl Konteh

Jordan Rossi

Carrie Sutton

Tonic

Faye Purcell

Massimo Messi

David Wright

Beth Montague

Elle Lotherington

Ed Livesey

Benji Kirkham

Josh Dadson

Cinta Miller

Karel Van Bellingen

George Garnish

Dan Levy

Rascal Post

Robert Chandler

Garage

Craig David ft Duvall 'My Heart's Been Waiting For You' by Jordan Rossi

Craig-David-'My-Heart's-Been-Waiting-For-You-(feat.-Duvall)'-by-Jordan-Rossi

Sam Bailey returns to music videos&nbsp;with this joyful love letter to the Golden Age of film musicals, in his new promo for Metronomy.&nbsp;The band are seen adorned in giant flower headpieces, playing their song Love Factory, while being led by a conductor, and&nbsp;as a vivacious dancer, Majella Fitzgerald,&nbsp;takes centre stage.&nbsp;Majella is the busy Bee, who picks out each Metronomy 'flower', one by one, to 'pollinate' them. And this happens in a splendidly suggestive representation of Nature - choreographed by Supple Nam.&nbsp;From there, the concept launches into full, Golden Age musical mode, as the Bee interacts with each flower, around the stately house that provides the venue of the video, viewing each member through her trippy, multi-imaged 'bee vision.'&nbsp;It's an extremely skilled display of lightly frothy entertainment, that is also clever and subtly alternative in its joie de vivre. In other words, it's&nbsp;very Metronomy.[imgtoken data:1]<blockquote>The initial idea came from watching bees hopping from bud to bud on a rosemary bush.</blockquote>"From start to finish this music video was huge lumps of fun to make," says Sam Bailey. "The initial idea came from watching bees hopping from bud to bud on a rosemary bush in my garden, indiscriminately having sweet little intimate interactions before moving onto the next one."The flowers became happy little dance partners to the bee as it moved around from station to station, as if on a factory floor. It married up perfectly with Joe's lyrics and the uplifting feel of the track's hazy tone. I was thrilled that the band went for it."Knowing that they often get really involved in the performance side I thought we should challenge them to learn some sweet moves from choreographer Supple Nam, who has a great history of bringing theatricality and levity to his dances. Just look at his work on the Miike Snow promo [for Genghis Khan] by Ninian Doff."Our performers, Majella Fitzgerald and Andrew Lyle-Pinnock [the conductor] come from big tap backgrounds. So we had a lot of fun playing with moves from musicals of 50s Hollywood (White Christmas, Singin’ In The Rain, Let’s Dance...) God, it’s joyful watching dancers move around, exploring ideas, paying homage to Vera Ellen and co. Especially when they’ve got big ol’ Hollywood smiles on. The genre calls for constant smiling, but if I could dance as effortlessly as them (and without wheezing) I’d be smiling too.[imgtoken data:2]<blockquote>We had a ball trying to emulate this era of filmmaking...&nbsp;hard lighting, bright colours and really bumpy camera movements.</blockquote>"All of us behind the camera had a ball trying to emulate this era of filmmaking too. DoP David Wright had all the good ideas on how to capture this. Hard lighting, bright colours and really bumpy camera movements. Apologies to our grip Anthony - I made him loosen up all the tracks every time he’d painstakingly smoothed everything out. I think it looks good though - if you watch some of the tracking shots in Singin’ In The Rain they feel like the camera is being driven round on an ASDA trolley.&nbsp;"The band were unexhaustible. 48 hours before shooting this they had spent a day flying in harnesses for the excellent Right On Time&nbsp;promo by Juliet Casella and Thibaut Ceasar. So they must be awarded with some sort of endurance award. Especially since they aren’t smokers and I had them vaping (nothing toxic) for the pollination shot plates.&nbsp;"I have nothing but thanks to them for trusting the idea and getting stuck in. Same goes for the rest of the team who worked very hard to get this all going six floors up in a central London building with an unapologetically small lift."

Sam Bailey

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Just Fred

Natalia Maus

Massimo Filippi

Fred Bonham Carter

Alexa Haywood

Benji Smith

Because Music

Zoe Gunn

Supple Nam

Sophie Cox

Majella Fitzgerald

Steve Wingrove

Jay Whittington

Anthony Ward

Jonny Tully

Fin Sully

Natalie Willis

CHEAT

Indie

Alternative

Rock

Metronomy 'Love Factory' by Sam Bailey

Metronomy-'Love-Factory'-by-Sam-Bailey

Kevin Hudson directs a high-energy performance promo for Potter Payper.&nbsp;Released to coincide with his latest mixtape project, the video spans an incredible amount of vignettes in its four minute runtime, placing the rapper in a variety of contrasting situations, celebrating the good and bad in life.&nbsp;Payper's performance takes centre-stage of course, eminating the raw, confident energy he's become known for, and the cinematography - especially the use of 180 degree flip transitions&nbsp;- adds a fresh dimension to the concept.And as he explains below, this is an especially treasured project by Hudson, as it was his last with Luke Biggins, who died last month.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Kevin Hudson

Yellow Fish Group Limited

Luke Biggins

Sam Barnham

Ahment Husseyin

Toby Harris

Jess Lamb

Bemi Shaw

Chantelle Pantelides

Kaz Ove

Wash

Marisa Garner Associates

Nicola Sheppard

0207 Def Jam

Grime

Hip Hop

Potter Payper 'Johnny On The Spot' by Kevin Hudson

Potter-Payper-'Johnny-On-The-Spot'-by-Kevin-Hudson

Harvey Pearson's uses a twin-image format to create a hypnotic video for new artist Leo Bjanji.Throughout the video, Bjanji stands in a US-style phone box, in a field of wind turbines, talking the lyrics to Sea Demon into the receiver, as the camera rotates around him. The double image device really works to compliment this&nbsp;strong, simple set-up. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

Harvey Pearson

My Accomplice

Richard Grewe

Samantha Wolf

Shamara Adams

Isaac Eastgate

Samuel Harding

Aubery Pascoe

Joe Munroe

Ruth Wardell

Okay Studio

Jon Moore

Dirty Hit

Leo Bhanji 'Sea Demon' by Harvey Pearson

Leo Bhanji - Sea Demon

Django Django's singer&nbsp;Vincent Neff heads out on a night drive through London in Drew Tyndell's atmospheric video for Under Fire.The real impact of the video comes from how Tyndell has treated the footage of Neff's journey though a deserted city in his bronze BMW: each frame printed off and 'hand-tinted', to create displaced yet cinematic&nbsp;effect.

Drew Tyndell

Tamas Meder

Alex Tan

Jazz Ballhall

Steve Gilbert

Rhiannon Tyndell

Rhian Emanuel

Django Django 'Under Fire' by Drew Tyndell

Django Django – Under Fire (Official Video)

Claire Arnold's latest video for Ashnikko&nbsp;depicts Ash in three paradisiacal settings while they perform to camera.“I wrote this song pre-pandemic when I was on vacation," Ashnikko has said about&nbsp;Panic Attacks In Paradise. "I had been working really hard, just going going going... When I actually stopped to be with myself and be still, I didn’t know what to do. I was having really horrible mental health problems and I ruined my vacation for myself; so I quite literally had a panic attack in paradise.”

Claire Arnold

Ground Work

Aaron Z. Willson

Anna Butler

Elicia Lotherington

Stefan Yap

Devan Clarke-Sheward

Dan Howe

Ellie Koslowsky

Finn Sullivan

Holly Wood

Claire Moore

John Allan

Georgia Olive

Tom Chick

Adam Clarke

Fatima Ouklilane

Butterscotch Post

Sam Seager

Warner Music

Parlophone

Jake Whitehouse

Ashnikko 'Panic Attacks In Paradise' by Claire Arnold

Ashnikko-'Panic-Attacks-In-Paradise'-by-Claire-Arnold

Dan French explores the anticipation, nerves and sheer excitement&nbsp;of a new relationship, in his promo for Navos's You And I, featuring Harlee.&nbsp;Following a guy and girl - played by Lucas Jones and Leelah Voh - who are planning to meet up at an unconventional party location, the visual treads familiar territory in the narrative,&nbsp;but executes it in a fresh and exciting way.&nbsp;Using bodyrigs, we get right up in on the action, following every smile, worried glance and relieved grin on the character's faces, before the camera dives into an untethered 360 shot of their first kiss.&nbsp;In keeping with the aesthetic, Navos and Harlee also make a cameo appearance at the party, adding a brief yet perfectly fitting performance element.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Dan French

Papaya Films

Pilar Muro

Ahmos

Ben Cotgrove

Toby Harro 

Anastasiya Cherkasyuk 

Owain Morgan 

Anthony Hensman

Sophia Katyea

Louise Hall

Kharmel Cochrane

Alec Gordon

Jack McGinity

Oana Anghel

John Hassay

Universal Music

Leelah Voe

Lucas Jones

Electronic

Navos ft Harlee 'You And I' by Dan French

Navos-Ft-Harlee-'You-And-I'-by-Dan-French

Kara Marni embodies the elements, in Rebekah B Creative's&nbsp;fashion-centric promo for 2nd Nature.&nbsp;Water, air and fire are infused into the concept for the video, visualised through stunning set design and breathtaking styling, with an enchanting performance tying&nbsp;it all together.&nbsp;Projected colours and patterns add an extra texture to the visuals, whilst slow, deliberate camera movements encompass the sensual vibes of the track.[imgtoken data:1]"2nd Nature is about natural desire," says Rebekah. "The visual is built from three scenes inspired by three natural elements that Kara dominates and controls - water, air and fire. The styling and art direction were orchestrated to work harmoniously as we saw this mainly as a fashion-centred performance video."Embodying each element through texture and colour pallette&nbsp;was the most prominent task. Big ups to Anastasia Busch on styling, Kai Blamey as DOP and Alan Scott on set design."

Rebekah Creative

Yellow Fish Group

Danny Rumbelow

Kai Blamey

Orlando O'mahoney

Edward Melbourne

Alan Scott

Anastasia Busch

Bekki Mitchell

Marisa Garner

First Access Entertainment

Soul

Kara Marni '2nd Nature' by Rebekah B Creative

Kara-Marni-'2nd-Nature'-by-Rebekah-Creative

Zak Abel shares the love in B2's fun-filled promo for Be Kind.&nbsp;The breezy video takes place on a beautiful day in the middle of a luscious green field - not a world away from the iconic Window XP desktop background - and features a flurry of feel-good movement and performance.&nbsp;Different characters pop up in mini-vignettes, before forming a dynamic ensemble for the climax, whilst Abel sings through a vintage microphone dangling from offscreen.[imgtoken data:1]

Dmnd Clr

Dijian Eccles

Arran Green

Natalie Anderson

Kashmir Wickham

Ayse Gonen

Max Ferguson-Hook

Sean Ewins

Andre Reid-McKinley

Gary Kent

Zak Abel 'Be Kind' by B2

Zak-Abel-'Be-Kind'-by-B2

For Gracey's Got You Covered&nbsp;- a truthful, emotional song about being there for a friend in need - Salim Adam directs a video focussing upon the bonds of friendship, fusing Gracey's charismatic performance with a very relatable story.&nbsp;Adam's video encapsulates the intimate setting between the two kindred spirits as they support each other through hardships, and then flows through a night out on the town together with friends, letting their hair down.With emotions running from pain to release, the energy and passion of the video never wanes and always looks great, with the director utilising various formats to deliver its powerful message of care for friends&nbsp;- a subject that resonates more than ever.&nbsp;&nbsp;“Got You Covered&nbsp;is a love song to my best mate," says Gracey of the song written and produced by Billen Ted.&nbsp;"It’s about being there for someone no matter what - and recently she’s been battling an eating disorder alongside going through a heartbreak."It’s about having someone’s back through the highest and lowest points of life, and it’s my way of telling her she is never alone."[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

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